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50 BitTorrent Tools That Will Increase Your BitTorrent Productivity

By Wendy Boswell, About.com

BitTorrent technology, while somewhat controversial, is here to stay. You can use BitTorrent to download music, movies, software, and more - and since BitTorrent is so easy to use, the rise of useful BitTorrent tools seems to have no end in sight. Here are my picks for the top fifty most useful BitTorrent tools that will increase your BitTorrent productivity. Not sure what BitTorrents are? You'll want to read What Are BitTorrents?.

1. uTorrent

utorrent
uTorrent is a lightweight, open source, BitTorrent client (for more on BitTorrent clients, read What is a BitTorrent Client?.

2. Mininova

mininova
Mininova is one of the most popular BitTorrent search engines on the Web; they offer a huge variety of family-safe BitTorrent files for you to find.

3. The Pirate Bay

the pirate bay
The Pirate Bay is an extremely popular (and large) BitTorrent tracker: "Only torrent files are saved at the server. That means no copyrighted and/or illegal material are stored by us. It is therefore not possible to hold the people behind The Pirate Bay responsible for the material that is being spread using the tracker."

4. isoHunt

isohunt
Isohunt is a BitTorrent search engine. Isohunt does not host BitTorrent files, Isohunt only helps you find BitTorrent files, and therefore is a completely legal service. You can read more about Isohunt here: Find BitTorrent Files with Isohunt.

5. SeedPeer

seedpeer
SeedPeer is a BitTorrent search engine; you can use SeedPeer to find BitTorrent files you might be interested in downloading.

6. BiteNova

bitenova
BiteNova is an extremely well-organized BitTorrent tracker/directory; you can use BiteNova to find movies, anime, books, and more.

7. Miro

miro
Miro is a free, open source Internet TV and video player. You can use Miro to download and play any BitTorrent file that you find.

8. NowTorrents

nowtorrents
NowTorrents is a real time bittorrent search engine; it also will discard dead links for you so you don't have to wade through them in your bittorent searching.

9. YouTorrent

youtorrent
YouTorrent bills itself as a real-time comparison bittorrent search engine, meaning that it searches from many different bittorrent sites to find what you're looking for.

10. BitLet

bitlet
BitLet is simply a BitTorrent application that lets you download any torrent file directly in your browser instead of using a separate BitTorrent client.

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